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FICTION

PAM DURBAN
Keep Talking | 9

BONNIE ROOP BOWLES
Noah’s Ghost | 18

SONDRA SPATT OLSEN
Why I Stopped Writing Poetry | 45

JULIA RIDLEY SMITH
Back in History, Things Were Dirty and Loud | 53

MARTIN COZZA
Pirate | 57

POETRY

EDWARD LOCKE
The Visit | 6
Skin and Tones | 6

LAURA LEE WASHBURN
The Monkey King | 15

E.I. PRUITT
The Heave in the Rump of Horses Galloping | 17

PRISCILLA FRAKE
Gravers | 32

BARRY SPACKS
A Narrow House | 43

BURTON RAFFEL
Memories of World War Two | 44

DANIEL ANDERSON
Reunion | 51

INTERVIEW

JONATHAN D’AMORE AND FARRELL O’GORMAN
The Moral Arc of the Story: An Interview with Tobias Wolff | 34

REVIEWS

ROBERT WEST
Three from the Mountains | 67

ARTWORK

LOUANNE WATLEY
From the series I want to take you to the someplace else | Cover & 29

Lindsay Starck, Moira Marquis | EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

MANAGING EDITOR

Catherine O’Neill

FICTION EDITOR

Moira Anne Marquis
Rae Yan

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Sam Bednarchik
Travis Alexander

NON-FICTION EDITORS

Sam Bednarchik, Travis Alexander

LAYOUT EDITOR

Samntha Farley

COVER DESIGN

Philip McFee

POETRY EDITOR

Sarah George-Waterfield
Lee Norton

ART EDITOR

Chloe Accardi

STAFF: Aisha Anwar, Krista Harder, John Ligtenberg, Maddie Norris
FICTION READERS: Laura Broom, Jacob Watson, L. Lamar Wilson
POETRY READERS: Matthew Hotham, Jeffrey Peterson
NON-FICTION READERS: Ryan-Ashley Anderson, Anneke Schwob